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Fight hunger with knowledge. In this short video, World Hunger Education Service’s Steve Hansch explains global hunger, discusses a few causes, and tells you how to get involved in humanitarian work.
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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
Global Hunger: Children
Fact Sheet: Child Malnutrition
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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Read the latest news and analysis about global hunger below.
How is famine declared?
by D,K. The Economist April 5, 2017
The UN relies on technocratic calculations but politics still plays a part....
Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA
by Alan Bjerga Bloomberg Politics March 28, 2017
An international school food-aid program backed by former Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Bob Dole would end under President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint, with the White House arguing its success isn’t proven. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, created ...
Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
by Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times March 28, 2017
For the first time since anyone can remember, there is a very real possibility of four famines — in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen — breaking out at once, endangering more than 20 million....
U.N.’s Famine Appeal Is Billions Shy of Goal
by Somini Sengupta The New York Times March 26, 2017
UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned 20 million people would fall into famine if his aid agencies could not corral $4.4 billion by the end of March. So far, the UNs has received less than a tenth of the ...
Global Food Policy Report 2017
by International Food Policy Research Institute March 26, 2017
This report is a review of major developments in food and nutrition policy around the globe, featuring an in-depth look at the impact of rapid urbanization....
UN agencies in Rome step up on gender equality to end hunger and poverty
by March 8, 2017
Leaders from the three UN Rome-based agencies, FAO, IFAD, and WFP, today Marked International Women's Day by reinforcing their commitments to step up efforts to invest in the capacities of rural women as key agents of change in building a wo...
Quinoa genome unveiled in search for hardy crop to feed world
by The Guardian March 6, 2017
Some strains can tolerate 38-degree days, salty soils and high altitudes, say researchers. The near-complete genome of quinoa was unveiled on Wednesday by scientists who say the grain cultivated centuries ago by Incas in the Andes could help feed a hungry world....
Famine: what does it really mean and how do aid workers treat it?
by Imogen Wall The Guardian February 21, 2017
Famine looms in Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The horrible, medieval fate of starving to death is once again a 21st-century reality. But what does the word famine actually mean and how do aid workers treat it? For aid workers, famine is the extreme end of a long spectrum of what is kno...
Four famines mean 20 million may starve in the next six months
by Tom Miles Reuters February 19, 2017
More than 20 million people - greater than the population of Romania or Florida - risk dying from starvation within six months in four separate famines, U.N. World Food Programme chief economist Arif Husain says. Wars in Yemen, northeastern Nigeria ...
Why Do We Work So Hard To Hide Hunger?
by Princess Haya bint al Hussein Forbes February 19, 2017
A commentary by Princess Haya of Jordan, a humanitarian and UN Messenger of Peace. Each New Year brings with it a feeling of optimism, of hope and of change. Millions of us around the world make resolutions and promises to ourselves: to lose weight...
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